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they should go back to stanning bob sapp and kiefer sutherland
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Dec 28, 2020 01:16
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These rally are organized by Falun gong. I think at some point people will realize Falun Gong is a cultier cult than Scientology.
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Dec 28, 2020 01:29
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stephenthinkpad posted:These rally are organized by Falun gong. I think at some point people will realize Falun Gong is a cultier cult than Scientology. Got any good resources about them handy? I am interested in some good old fashioned horror stories.
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Dec 28, 2020 01:35
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thats a sick communism scarf
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Dec 28, 2020 01:56
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the work load of being a mayor and doing a bachelors in math probably sucks. good luck to her
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Dec 28, 2020 01:58
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id like to go to a rally to restore sanity hosted by the falun gong
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Dec 28, 2020 01:58
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sincx has issued a correction as of 05:32 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Dec 28, 2020 03:10
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lol aliens. why doesn't the CIA just encourage everyone to be buddhist priest and renounce material possessions
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Dec 28, 2020 04:07
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sincx has issued a correction as of 05:32 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Dec 28, 2020 04:19
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Rutibex posted:lol aliens. why doesn't the CIA just encourage everyone to be buddhist priest and renounce material possessions There'll be egg on your face when aliens show up. They're already talking to Israel, didn't you see the news earlier? 
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Dec 28, 2020 04:21
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stephenthinkpad posted:These rally are organized by Falun gong. I think at some point people will realize Falun Gong is a cultier cult than Scientology. I used to call them the Moon God people but then I recently learnt that I confused them for the Korean cult that owned the Washington Times
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Dec 28, 2020 04:27
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DesertIslandHermit posted:I used to call them the Moon God people but then I recently learnt that I confused them for the Korean cult that owned the Washington Times 'Moon God' reminds me of the Chick Tract, personally.
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Dec 28, 2020 04:34
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I heard stories from friends that The Epoch Times completely pulled out of advertising and distribution in their towns after Trump clearly lost. It’s all a grift.
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Dec 28, 2020 04:49
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sincx posted:https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending-judgment-day-behind-facebook-fueled-rise-epoch-n1044121 imo it's closer to Black Hebrew Israelites Li Hongzhi, founder posted:"The way alien beings get human beings to shake free of the gods is to mix the races, causing human beings to become rootless people, just like the plant hybrids people make nowadays. South Americans, Central Americans, Mexicans and some people in South East Asia—all of these races have been mixed. None of this can evade the gods’ eyes. Alien beings have made rather extensive preparations for overtaking human beings."
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Dec 28, 2020 05:01
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sincx posted:https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-qanon-impending-judgment-day-behind-facebook-fueled-rise-epoch-n1044121 Is it just kooky beliefs, or does it share the other aspects of Scientology like slavery and abuse?
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Dec 28, 2020 05:51
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A Doomed Purloiner posted:does it share the other aspects of Scientology like slavery and abuse? yes
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Dec 28, 2020 05:54
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stephenthinkpad posted:These rally are organized by Falun gong. I think at some point people will realize Falun Gong is a cultier cult than Scientology. is it solely because Scientology caters to the rich?
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Dec 28, 2020 05:54
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I mean they have a 400 acre compound and routinely bring people to the US on work visas what do you think e: the South Korean cult are called Moonies, right? wolfs has issued a correction as of 05:57 on Dec 28, 2020 |
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Dec 28, 2020 05:54
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wolfs posted:e: the South Korean cult are called Moonies, right? one of them is! had to make this distinction when a close friend joined a different South Korean cult (World Mission Society Church of God)  Unification Church are the Moonies Protagorean has issued a correction as of 06:24 on Dec 28, 2020 |
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Dec 28, 2020 06:22
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sincx has issued a correction as of 05:32 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Dec 28, 2020 06:35
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we all know who the "best" christian cult is tbh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o-uM4V3Sdo&t=1361s Goast has issued a correction as of 07:06 on Dec 28, 2020 |
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Dec 28, 2020 07:04
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is there a system of major cults with government ties in all of the more globalized Asian countries? is this the result of the Cold War and liberalism atomizing societies like, broad strokes: IS and their various branches is when the cult goes hot and stays hot but Aum Shinrikyo/Falun Gong/the Moonies & co just simmer with the occasional flare up — thinking of the sarin gas attacks and that business with the South Korean president a few years ago as examples ...is there a cult secretly running Vietnam, for instance?
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Dec 28, 2020 07:09
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i wouldnt describe falun gong as having "government ties" kind of the opposite, actually
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Dec 28, 2020 07:14
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Varinn posted:i wouldnt describe falun gong as having "government ties" its literally cia lmao
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Dec 28, 2020 07:15
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Goast posted:its literally cia lmao yes but thats not what the poster right above me was saying wolfs posted:is there a system of major cults with government ties in all of the more globalized Asian countries?
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Dec 28, 2020 07:22
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wolfs posted:is there a system of major cults with government ties in all of the more globalized Asian countries? pass the bong dude
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Dec 28, 2020 07:32
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is Vietnam inoculated against cults because of the great spirit of Ho Chi Minh
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Dec 28, 2020 07:43
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Ardennes posted:
Try Егор Николаевич Яковлев. https://www.livelib.ru/author/1190500/top-egor-yakovlev
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Dec 28, 2020 07:44
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wolfs posted:is there a system of major cults with government ties in all of the more globalized Asian countries? This is literally just what religion is.
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Dec 28, 2020 08:32
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Protagorean posted:pass the bong dude gimme some of that opiate of the masses
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Dec 28, 2020 08:36
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So I watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx3mQftSMSo&t=52s It was interesting but I wonder if it is all accurate or if the narrator is just posing as an "expert".
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Dec 28, 2020 10:02
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There is a religion in Vietnam called Caodaism that workships a lot of saints from Christanity, Confucianism, Daoism and more modern thought leaders like Vemictor Hugo and Sub Yat Sen. But it's constitutionalized and just a normal religion.Goast posted:we all know who the "best" christian cult is tbh Holy poo poo! It's that meme gif! stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 10:24 on Dec 28, 2020 |
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Dec 28, 2020 10:21
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punk rebel ecks posted:So I watched this video: The entire premise that Japan is significantly more “lonely” than elsewhere is questionable. The dude is also definitely not an “expert”. What it is is a video essay about a subject that is almost guaranteed to get views, and that should color your interpretation of it. That doesn’t mean that Japanese society has no problems or that there isn’t some salient points/data in there, but you should ask yourself if you couldn’t make almost the same video essay about literally any industrialized nation (you could) and if this isn’t just essentially cashing in on the very in-vogue otherization and fetishization of Japan by the west (it is).
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Dec 28, 2020 11:39
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To his credit, he includes a link to his notes/sources. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fPScJOFg42OyLm0BTdfiJTLKDoDX9velmr8L7NXSAvU/mobilebasic Guess what; they’re mostly garbage and YouTube videos and gently caress all for anything academic or in-depth or not generally being sensationalistic dreck. It’s basically a digest of various bullshit assembled by someone who knows literally nothing among the language or culture, set to moonlight sonata so you feel sad. You know how this very thread often mocks China coverage for “experts” lacking cultural and language knowledge? Japan is that except generally popular enough that a shitton of *even worse* amateurs also shoot their shot at deciphering the mysterious orient, and get far more attention than they deserve because Japan and its culture and media has such soft power that a video just being about Japan will bring in fuckloads of views on YouTube et al.
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Dec 28, 2020 11:47
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The funniest part is those people often have lived in Japan for a long time but still believe it's like some weird magic land instead of just normal people going about their lives like any other Western country.
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Dec 28, 2020 15:24
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:The funniest part is those people often have lived in Japan for a long time but still believe it's like some weird magic land instead of just normal people going about their lives like any other Western country. it's because japan is western enough that nothing is so strange that it's uncomfortable but is still different enough to be novel
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Dec 28, 2020 15:34
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I think the phenomenon of expats living in an eastern countries being ignorant to the host country is fairly common. But you can make a case that the Japanese go an extra mile to pander to the US culture (things like going to KFC to celebrate Christmas etc) which make the expats more comfortable.
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Dec 28, 2020 16:14
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stephenthinkpad posted:I think the phenomenon of expats living in an eastern countries being ignorant to the host country is fairly common. But you can make a case that the Japanese go an extra mile to pander to the US culture (things like going to KFC to celebrate Christmas etc) which make the expats more comfortable. Very much disagree with that last part, and Japan is frequently rated as less/the least comfortable for expats inn Asia by drat near every survey. Japan also doesn’t pander to western cultures to make them comfortable worth a drat (also KFC for Christmas? Literally not a thing in the west and looked upon with confusion by anyone not familiar with Japan so no idea why you’ve chosen that example; it was a clever and crazily successful marketing tactic specifically for Japan ). There’s a certain cachet to some western stuff in Japan, just like there’s cachet to things from other cultures everywhere (be it english pubs, French wine, Italian cars and suits etc etc) but that’s essentially entirely for domestic consumption and by and large anywhere it happens to make expats comfortable is more coincidental. This is not to say there aren’t some smaller businesses etc. that specifically to expat needs but as a cultural or writ large Japan doesn’t cater specifically to expats worth a gently caress, and only very recently is this significantly shifting because tourism to Japan increased literally 600% or so in the last 8 years I think? It’s a lot and fast at any rate. Japan is economically powerful and frankly doesn’t need to cater to expats worth poo poo compared to places like Singapore (1/3rd of the pop being foreign and a notable part of that being wealthy expats), Hong Kong (huge finance industry and access point to mainland manufacturing, at least in the past, though now changing), Thailand (huge portion of GDP from tourism), etc.
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Dec 28, 2020 16:28
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LimburgLimbo posted:Very much disagree with that last part, and Japan is frequently rated as less/the least comfortable for expats inn Asia by drat near every survey. may we see some of these surveys
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Dec 28, 2020 16:30
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Well I have never been to Japan so I can't argue with you, I am just going by 2nd hand impression. But I am talking about the Japanese "thing" of going to KFC in Christmas, and celebrate Valentine's Day in their own Japanese way. I call these little gestures "pandering to the western culture". I don't know what else do call them. I can list alot of other things such as baseball and pro wrestling, etc. China doesn't do that. However HKer has a habit of doing the same thing, so I say HK is friendlier to expats for the similar reasons.
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Dec 28, 2020 16:44
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